1 Peter 1:8
You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you cannot see him now, you trust in him and you're filled with wonderful, indescribable happiness.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
In Context
9Your reward for trusting in him is that you will be saved!
Cross References
Song of Solomon 5:9Why is the one you love better than any other, most beautiful of women? In what way is the one you love better than any other that we should promise you that?
Habakkuk 3:17Even though there are no blossoms on the fig trees and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no harvest; even though there are no animals in the pen and no cattle in the stalls;
Matthew 25:35For I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me in.
John 14:15If you love me, you will keep my commands.
John 14:24Those who don't love me don't do what I say. These words don't come from me, they come from the Father who sent me.
John 20:29“You trust in me because you've seen me,” Jesus told him. “Happy are those that haven't seen me yet still trust in me.”
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 1:7-10
Privileges of Christians. ( a. d. 66.) 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9 Receiving the end of your… Read the whole commentary →